Darth Bane is a fictional character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. He is first mentioned in the novelization of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and is thereafter consistently referenced in Expanded Universe material. He is also officially part of the Star Wars canon, which Lucasfilm officially revised in 2014, because he appeared in the last episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He appears in the Jedi vs. Sith comic book series and the novels Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Darth Bane: Rule of Two and Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil. Bane is notable for being the originator of the "Rule of Two" for the Sith Lords: a master and an apprentice can be the only Sith in the galaxy at one time.

And again we hit on the fundamental difference between my take on this movie and what so many of you guys. See, I think if you take all the "Star Wars"-ness out of it, it's actually a better movie that totally stands on its own. When it owes nothing to the history/legacy/baggage of the previous films, it still has a great impact. It's a fantastic adventure story and a gripping war film. The stuff that drags it down, more often than not, are the overstuffed Star Wars things. Taking "Star Wars" off the movie poster doesn't make this a worse movie.